Monday, October 31, 2016

Top 20 Things I never Thought I’d End Up Doing

(But My Disease Made Me Do)

I enjoy writing. And hopefully, those of you who read my posts enjoy them. But I realize that a lot of them are serious in nature due to the topic I choose to write about. Bringing awareness to Chronic Illnesses in general and Sjogren’s Syndrome in particular has become a bit of a calling for me. I advocated for those with disabilities and gave a voice to the voiceless while I had a career, I like to think that I am now lending my words to the millions out there who suffer like I do but don’t know how to explain it their friends and family.

But after writing so many serious posts, even the ones with humor in them, I thought I’d try to lighten it up a bit. So here’s my top 20 list of things I never thought I’d do. EVER! Enjoy…

Nearly choke on a small piece of cheese during my wedding photos. (guess who ended up drinking more communion wine?..)

Con my toddlers into giving me backrubs by telling them we were going to play cars and I was the mountain the cars had to go over to get to the town.

Drive around swathed in 2 yards of gauze fabric in the summer along with huge sunglasses. (The looks I got…)

About Me

Born and raised in Rochester NY, I was diagnosed with Sjogren’s 4 months after my second son was born. My kids are now 21 and 23 years old. I have since developed MCTD, Inflammitory Arthritis, and Fibromyalgia. I have raised my kids, worked at my career for over 30 years, and have been a wife to her husband of 26 years while being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease for 21 of them. I currently writes from the heart about these experiences while wrangling our one rescue dog and three rescue cats.